Opinion: Chinese Hack Attack

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... back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... the Wall Street Journal are use to reporting and commenting on the news but not actually being the news ... recently we disclose that did as have other major media outlets ... that we've been a subject of cyber attacks originating from China so why ... editorial page editor Paul GBO is here with me ... call what in the world with aging hope to achieve ... by public attacks on ... the publication ecommerce ... where all the evidence that we found is that it looks like they were trying to pursue ... people on the staff who covers China write about China ... and look for their sources and will put their subject or what they might be reading about to was ... called bridge base we don't have any evidence that they were looking at customer conduits for example or ... private bank account to things like that it seems to have been covered focused so what does this tell us about the regime in Beijing we are calling for years ... I echo Hillary Clinton's Secretary State last September ... we are committed to building a cooperated partnership with China while I'm in favor of cooperatives relationship with China ... in ... favor of the ... that may be somewhat different terms the sector's T ... V ... I mean I think that I don't want war China nobody is ... but Tom basically of the government ... regime ... that doesn't play by the international rules ... are that everybody else plays ... and they are using cyber ... attacks in cyber espionage ... to steal of American commercial secrets ... to try to break into our defense establishment and steel ... defense secrets ... or ... of anything they can get their hands on ... in the case to the media companies it's too ... presumably get ... the names of sources ... Shopko sources out ... be able to track what we're doing ... and perhaps not prevent us from publishing so you know that how the newspaper looking US forces has domestic use within China no problem but there was a congressional report out last year the de tails of cyber attacks on government institutions equal to hear ... forty seven advanced persistent Threat attacks against mass up ... in the hackers gained full functional control for networks each at propulsion Laboratory said party pre scare ... our are we prepared to increase the federal level ... to protect ... the Pentagon ... utilities nuclear plants at how the roster we hear my thinking and we've been doing on a reporting system on this over many months listening to intelligence officials when they come Ian ... and government officials who been following this in the sense I get ... is that American government ... on the agency's quickly defense agencies are actually pretty hard ... in their defence of these things ... they have been thinking about it for a long time they've been able to stop this it doesn't mean they can't get here ... Chinese can't break and once in awhile but ... that we were Big widow pretty good job of government level job really much worse job ... at the commercial company level or systems are as hard ... he and I and deal with and trying to get work out something legislative late ... that would allow companies that need help to go to the government to hear switching cares what's happened to us ... can you help us ... and that has been a failed effort in in in Congress but the American company's anemia that utilities ... that's up of think tanks financial institutions institutions are and media companies are vulnerable ... so all that the remains of political issue here policy quandary on Capitol Hill ... given that the frequency of these taxis to be increasing their ... targeting big targets not like the Pentagon ... Lake big media outlets like ours ... I should any of these attacks temper how we view ... the Chinese foreign direct investment or how ... I'm Congress moves to maybe ... one day ... for review it well it's a very good question I mean you wanna be weary of ... of of limiting foreign investment because it's good for growth ... are we what we believe in free and open capital markets ... we feed you have a country which is violating the law and it looks like he's he's a taxi cyber attacks on us for Temple ... of government based ... in New York Times has the same thing about the attacks on them ... I mean you have to think about ... how you respond ... it is obviously a crime ... net of minimum violation of privacy ... a peace deal ... anything that's a crime that ... and then we have laws against cyber espionage ... soul ... if these are has ... some govern officials have suggested that really attacks on American sovereignty ... and a form of of of warfare ... here we have to begin to think and got about a spot on a stronger response and maybe the beginning of that is to think about Chinese companies like Wal way ... for ZTE that one access for markets ... I will simply be denied until the government begins to ... too equivocal works well it certainly a big problem let's hope that this White House in our new ... secretaries of state and treachery etc are up to ... the task editorial page editor Paul GBO ... thanks for being with us